Chung Sanghwa
Chung Sanghwa is a South Korean minimalist and Dansaekhwa painter. After receiving his BFA from College of Fine Arts in Seoul National University in 1956, Chung briefly moved to Paris in 1967. Coming from a generation of post-war artists, Chung's reductive process of painting consists of repetitive application and removal of the paint on canvas. Chung held national and international exhibitions, including FROM ALL SIDES: TANSAEKHWA ON ABSTRACTION at in Los Angeles. In 2015, Chung Sanghwa's paintings were included in Art Fair, represented by Gallery Hyundai. has organized more than 25 of Chung's exhibitions, including 9 solo shows since 1983. Chung's works are in permanent collection of the Samsung Leeum Museum of Art, the Seoul Museum of Art in Seoul, the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, the Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art and the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum.
